Topic: Ikaruga Blasts Onto Switch May 29

[Shaymin]

And vertical play is supported.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/47140/ikaruga-blasts-onto-switch-may-29

The Switch has a lot of scrolling shooters, and it's landing a giant of the genre this month.

Developers Treasure are teaming with Nicalis to bring Ikaruga to the eShop on May 29 for US$14.99. The game previously hit Nintendo platforms with a 2003 GameCube release.

The core gameplay of Ikaruga involves switching the polarity of the titular ship to absorb bullets.

[ShyGuy]

This may be my most anticipated game of 2018!

[ejamer]

Great game, great price!`

[Mythtendo]

I played this when it originally came out and liked it. I had considered re-buying it later, but the GameCube copy was crazy expensive

[ShyGuy]

I rented this when I first got my Gamecube and it was hard to find after that. After all these years...

[Stratos]

Didn't Treasure go under? Happy to see them still putting something out, and always wanted to try this game.

[Khushrenada]

I bought it, maybe 10 years ago, for $40.00 and thought I lucked out getting it at a good price but this is even better. Still have yet to even try the game though. I was really falling out of gaming at the time and just buying games for the sake of trying to have a collection of the best hits for a system. Now I play more games again but just don't have much time to get to them all. Maybe someday, right?

[Order.RSS]

Over the past 17 years I never even got past level 3 haha.

[GK]

Over the past 17 years I never even got past level 3 haha.

Think that's where I got stuck at too. Never did unlock unlimited continues either.

[Ian Sane]

Over the past 17 years I never even got past level 3 haha.

I made it to level 4... once.

[1day]

Over the past 17 years I never even got past level 3 haha.

Fortunately, the cube version gave me unlimited continues.  I do hope they include a 2x slower practice mode (or even better a 2x, 3x, and 1.5x). They inexplicably removed this extremely helpful training tool from future ports/versions.

[Mythtendo]

Didn't Treasure go under? Happy to see them still putting something out, and always wanted to try this game.

They're still around, but not very active. They've made 3 games in in the last 7 years (Bangai-O HD: Missle Fury for Xbox 360 in May 2011, Gaist Crusher for 3DS in December 2013, and Gaist Crusher God for 3DS in September 2014).

[ShyGuy]

I thought Treasure was retired or semi-retired.